Amadeus

Electronic Ticketing Direct BD, TK, SU, KC in CIS

Tatyana Luchshikova BSM

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E-ticketing Direct benefits

Short Solution Description

Amadeus Electronic Ticketing Direct product allows authorized Travel Agents to issue etickets on the validating carrier e-ticket stock. Moreover Travel Agents have access to all follow-up transactions on its own etickets. When using the Direct option, the tickets issued/voided/revalidated/reissued/refunded will be available for the Travel Agent in specific Amadeus Sales Reports instead of the traditional Amadeus market ones and this information will be transmitted directly to the airlines revenue accounting system.

Benefits
Be 100% Electronic Ticketing worldwide even in countries where no BSP exists, Direct sales relationship between the airline and the travel agent; All benefits of the Electronic issuance solution
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Faster exchange of information.

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e-Ticket Issuance
The agents will be able to select the ticketing carrier at time of issuance by simply adding the modifier /T-XX where XX is the carrier code.

Accounting Coupons
Accounting coupons will be printed on a broadcast printer. The following coupons will be available with a standard layout:

Itinerary receipt
Audit coupon Agent coupon Credit Card Charge form Passenger coupon
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The printing or not of these coupons can be defined by the airline at implementation time.

Forms of payment
In order to issue these e-tickets, the agents will be restricted to the forms of payment defined by the airline.

E-ticket Quota Control

e-Ticket Quota Control

Thanks to e-Ticket Quota Control, an airline can manage the number of e-ticket issued in NON BSP markets where they deploy Amadeus e-Ticketing Direct.

The quotas are specific per airline and:

set per IATA T/A;

defined per sales period (daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly);

automatically renewed at the end of the sales period;

The airline manages the ticket quotas itself directly in Amadeus system.

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only related to the e-ticket logical stock.

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Customer Segment
All Amadeus IATA certified Travel Agencies working with Airlines supporting Electronic Ticketing functionalities in markets with or without IATA Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP).

Value Statement
Amadeus Electronic Ticketing Direct enables authorized Travel Agents to issue Electronic Tickets on the validating carrier e-ticket stock and report these transactions directly to the airline revenue accounting system, without reporting them first to the BSP.

Prove it to Me
Today there are more than 30 countries without BSP and without any concrete plans from IATA to deploy a BSP. Therefore Amadeus Electronic Ticketing Direct represents the only one way for airlines and Travel Agents to issue Electronic Tickets in those countries.
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GDS Distribution
Competition
Am adeus vs Com petition by Airlines

Total nb. Of Airlines ET ready

180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40

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Sabre Galileo Worldspan Abacus Amadeus

20 0 Sabre Galileo Worldspan Abacus Amadeus

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Competition
Am adeus vs Com petition By countries

Total nb. Of countries

160 140 120 100 80 60 40

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Sabre Galileo Worldspan Abacus Amadeus

20 0 Sabre Galileo Worldspan Abacus Amadeus

E Ticketing Direct deployment in Central Asia and Caucasus

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Market: AZ GE KG UZ TM TJ

Airline: SU, BD, KL TK, SU, BD, KL SU, KC, BD, KL SU, TK TK TK